Show mm EW OF PROVO I 1 I 1 walter H R pikes 91 Acci accident deHL i DROVE INTO THE TH WE RAGE with a lady in his buggy judeen charge in the idam aze suit lilt night was waa intensely dark and the clouds clouda hung bang low it was dilli cult for a ped estrain to follow a path much less lees for a driver to see eee the road just juat after the electric aielts were out dr pike was taking hannah dark clark home in his bia buggy tuey had bad been out to a social gat gathering haring at the southwest corner of the provo woolen mills milla block on eighth street the horse hone left tho road for it takes taken a 9 alight tarn just before crossing the bridge briage and the tha animal stepped off on a five foot stone atone bank bahk into the mill race precipitating the two occupants into the swiftly running cold water luckily they both fell fall mostly iree free from the horse hone and buggy dr pikes head bead was wan caught but he got it loose after being twice kicked by the horde there were loud screams of help ill 1 murder I 1 etc from the thoroughly frightened lady which around the night watchmen on center street and the sound sleepers in houses bouses near by but babore any arrived upon the scene there had been a gallant rescue enose arriving upon the pronne in the and a halt half dozen other braby muscled men who turned their attention to rescuing the horse hora which had bad gotten down under the bridge and was standing in a strong current that ran well up on the tha horses side elde miss miia dark clar was taken to a neighboring house and found not to have bare been bean seriously hurt though she had bad sustained a bevere nervous chock the doctor it is said caid seemed quite solicitous tous for tho tb ladys welfare and when finding that she ebe was not injured lie ho turned his bis attention to the horse bore and wanted to so go back into the water under the bridge aud cut the poor animal loose the men present restrained him from doing this think ng it would be a dangerous dan geroux undertaking if the horse horae hould should got get to kicking kic xing finally john homr homer was waa lowered with a rope and loosed the animal the th buggy wax was also alio fishar out cut in a sadly adly dilapidated delapi dated condition conditi oo the flout fiant axle which received th tb weight af the fall in ia broken in a number of places and the shafts are shattered besides this ibis damage the tha doctor lost loaf his bia hat bat today both are receiving rece lying katims on account f their narrow escape from drowning droB ning had they hey gotten under the baggy in toe fall or happened to fall under the bridge i tha the borne horse was kicking people today would not have been smiling over the event the accident acci dont is deplorable because it what carelessness the city exhibits in the tha care of such auch dangerous danger places wen the brush is 13 left growing on the bank which pos possibly gibly from the tha view of the horse the unlucky step hakea into the race certainly more attention must be paid by the c ity city to these dangerous crossings at the factory race or gr the taxpayers tax payers will have to foot large dit damage inage bills against the city |